Anyone that knows me probably knows I have an ipod. And the reason they know this is because I've been almost boisterous in my love of the ipod. It's a godsend. Well, it was a godsend.
When you get an ipod, you spend countless hours uploading songs to it. It's a full time project if you're a music collector like myself.
Up until yesterday I had something like 4500 songs on my ipod. I was loading a few more onto it at work, and everything seemed to go ok. When I left work and started to play my new songs in the car, something strange happened. They wouldn't play. The ipod would cue up the song and then skip right past it.
It's not that unusual for an ipod to act a little strange, so I did the usual reset tricks, but nothing seemed to work.
When I got home, I hooked the ipod up to my windows me machine (yeah, i know) using a program called ephpod. I tried to play the songs I had added, but nothing seemed to work. I checked some of my other options, clicked around, but didn't do anything too drastic. I let the ipod charge for about 30 minutes while I got ready to go to the gym.
So anyway, fast forward to the gym, where Mike is on an elliptical and turns his ipod to shuffle only to discover that the ipod is now skipping all kinds of songs, songs that have been on it for over a year...
anyway, brought the ipod to work today, hooked it up, and it says i've got 5 gigs used.
i had 18.5 gigs used yesterday.
did all the tricks i read online, and still nothing works. the songs are FREAKIN' GONE.
you know, i'm really not that upset. i figure maybe it was time for a purge anyway. i guess.
i'm just lamenting all the stolen music i had that i never bothered putting on cd as a sort of backup. and since i don't keep my music library on any of my machines (my ipod is 20 gig. so is my hard drive), i'm back to square 1. or square 3 or 4.
and i thought i'd never hold a cd again.
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